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Galadriel's Lamp.
- Tell us about the elves, Gandalf! wish to hear more about the elves!
- The elves came from Fraujôn and FraujaR, the children of Skanþan and NerþuR.
Fraujôn ("liberate", "free")
FraujaR ("liberate", "free")
Skanþan ("jump", "climb")
NerþuR ("thirst from below")
Freyja - Venus- Aphrodite - Lada -Aine
Freyr- Bacchus - Dionysos - Veles - Aengus
Skaði - Diana - Artemis - Devona - Arduinna
Njörðr - Neptunus - Poseidon - Makosh - Llyr
The term elf derives from Old English ælf, from proto-Nordic *albaR, meaning "white". Originally, it was a term for the dead relatives, residing in the burial mound, waiting to return to life. They are immortals, but perhaps not in the sense that you might think. They are eternal, as long as the world remains light, green and free. They are our immortal spirits. We are them. We (the elves) reincarnate in the kin, and we remember and retain our spiritual strength through them by awakening the memories we had in previous lives. We do this by participating in the same rituals that we have always participated in (Yule, Easter, Summer Solstice, etc.) and by perceiving the sacred objects, that we owned or knew well in previous lives. The purpose of golden items in our burial mounds is to ensure the survival of these memories.
To 'regain our elf', we enter the burial mound and claim the items we owned in previous lives. Therefore, our burial mounds have doors that one can open and close. The amnesia is lifted by the sight or experience of something familiar, and we gain the accumulated strength of our forebears. As we BECOME them. If the Shadow prevails, the elves will fade away, and remain in Middle-earth only as incorporeal spirits. Their memories, wisdom, lore and strength will be lost forever. The elves are fading, as the machines and wheels of industry keep turning, leaving a barren concrete desert where forests once grew and animals lived. All that could have awoken the memories is being covered by the darkness of Mordor. Covered in gray desert sand.
The new man is like a tree with no roots. Full of contempt for his forebears, because he doesn't know them. He has no real memory of them. He knows only Sauron's lies. Sauron can easily deceive him and convince him that he is better off in his dark prison: as if a wild animal is better off living in a zoo. He thinks the desert is better than the forest, that tamed is better than wild, shadow better than light, assisted better than self sufficient, death better than life, mended or broken better than whole, and that power is better than freedom.
Lessons to be learned:
- Tell us about the elves, Gandalf! wish to hear more about the elves!
- The elves came from Fraujôn and FraujaR, the children of Skanþan and NerþuR.
Fraujôn ("liberate", "free")
FraujaR ("liberate", "free")
Skanþan ("jump", "climb")
NerþuR ("thirst from below")
Freyja - Venus- Aphrodite - Lada -Aine
Freyr- Bacchus - Dionysos - Veles - Aengus
Skaði - Diana - Artemis - Devona - Arduinna
Njörðr - Neptunus - Poseidon - Makosh - Llyr
The term elf derives from Old English ælf, from proto-Nordic *albaR, meaning "white". Originally, it was a term for the dead relatives, residing in the burial mound, waiting to return to life. They are immortals, but perhaps not in the sense that you might think. They are eternal, as long as the world remains light, green and free. They are our immortal spirits. We are them. We (the elves) reincarnate in the kin, and we remember and retain our spiritual strength through them by awakening the memories we had in previous lives. We do this by participating in the same rituals that we have always participated in (Yule, Easter, Summer Solstice, etc.) and by perceiving the sacred objects, that we owned or knew well in previous lives. The purpose of golden items in our burial mounds is to ensure the survival of these memories.
To 'regain our elf', we enter the burial mound and claim the items we owned in previous lives. Therefore, our burial mounds have doors that one can open and close. The amnesia is lifted by the sight or experience of something familiar, and we gain the accumulated strength of our forebears. As we BECOME them. If the Shadow prevails, the elves will fade away, and remain in Middle-earth only as incorporeal spirits. Their memories, wisdom, lore and strength will be lost forever. The elves are fading, as the machines and wheels of industry keep turning, leaving a barren concrete desert where forests once grew and animals lived. All that could have awoken the memories is being covered by the darkness of Mordor. Covered in gray desert sand.
The new man is like a tree with no roots. Full of contempt for his forebears, because he doesn't know them. He has no real memory of them. He knows only Sauron's lies. Sauron can easily deceive him and convince him that he is better off in his dark prison: as if a wild animal is better off living in a zoo. He thinks the desert is better than the forest, that tamed is better than wild, shadow better than light, assisted better than self sufficient, death better than life, mended or broken better than whole, and that power is better than freedom.
Lessons to be learned:
- Mordor's darkness advances where trees and traditions fall and cities are built. Where what is your own is replaced by something that is not. Where forgetfulness prevails.
- You are not just yourself. You are apart of your kin, and if awoken, the memories of old can be yours. The accumulated Courage, Wisdom, Fortitude and Honour of your forebears can be yours-because you are them!